Where did you read that? Checking sources, sentence 8
Searing meat (cooking its outside fast on a very hot pan until brown) does not "seal in the juices"; seared meat loses as much moisture as unseared meat, but browning adds flavour.
Who acts: Searing meat, seared meat · What happens: searing, cook, do, sear, lose, brown · To what, where: seal, much moisture, flavour
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where did you read that? Checking sources» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Searing meat, seared meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Searing | searing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 meat | amod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 does | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooking | punct |
| 4 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 meat | acl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 outside | nmod:poss |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 cooking | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pan | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pan | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 hot | advmod |
| 11 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pan | amod |
| 12 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooking | obl |
| 13 | until | until | ADP | _ | 14 brown | case |
| 14 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pan | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooking | punct |
| 16 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 seal | advmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 seal | punct |
| 19 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 does | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 juices | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 juices | det |
| 22 | juices | juice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seal | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 juices | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 seared | punct |
| 25 | seared | sear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 meat | amod |
| 26 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 loses | nsubj |
| 27 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 does | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moisture | amod |
| 30 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 loses | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 meat | case |
| 32 | unseared | unsear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meat | amod |
| 33 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moisture | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 adds | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 adds | cc |
| 36 | browning | brown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 adds | nsubj |
| 37 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 loses | conj |
| 38 | flavour | flavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 adds | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | searing | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cook | gerund | Searing meat not said here | on a hot pan until brown; fast property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on pan=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | do | present | Searing meat | seal in the juices | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sear | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | lose | present | seared meat | much moisture | as unseared meat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moisture=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | brown | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | add speech: assert | present | flavour | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:028-where-did-you-read-that-checking-sources.lesson:8.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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